ALL PLANES TO BE GROUNDED
ORDER TO FAR EAST COMPANY
PHILIPPINES GOVERNMENT ACTS AFTER CRASH (Rec. 8 p.m.) MANILA, Jan. 14. Following the crash on Saturday of a Skymaster airliner in which six lives were lost and from which three schoolboys were rescued, the Philippines Government has ordered the Far East Air Transport Company to ground all its aircraft pending an investigation. The Government made a charge that the company had disregarded the regulations, in spite of a warning issued after one of its aircraft crashed on December 13. Colonel Jesus Villamor. who is head of the Government Aeronautics Bureau, reported that the Skymaster’s pilot and also the chief mechanic and his assistant did not hold valid licences. The radio operators also were not licensed. Furthermore, the company had failed to test the aircraft without passengers after changing an engine at Shanghai.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25084, 16 January 1947, Page 7
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